[Editor's note: This is the final installment of a three-part series. Click the following for Part I and Part II.] The campaign to pressure artists to boycott is part of a highly organised mass movement. As with pro-Palestinians generally, the so called BDS (Boycott Divestment Sanction) Movement continually draws parallels between apartheid South Africa and Israel. […]

It has been observed that BDS groups, which seek the boycott, divestment, and sanctioning of Israel to isolate it internationally, target artists with an interest in human rights. This is an aim for the early phase of this movement, from which it can gain a foothold. Peculiar then, that even before the boycott success of […]

Shortly after Election Day of 2008, Malik Zulu Shabazz, an avid supporter of Barack Obama, became the subject of controversy when it was revealed that he had dispatched two members of his New Black Panther Party to stand outside an open polling station in Philadelphia and intimidate white voters with racial slurs and threats of violence. An inveterate racist [...]

[Editor's note: This is the second installment of a three-part series. Part III will appear in tomorrow's issue. Click here for Part I.]
It has been observed that BDS groups, which seek the boycott, divestment, and sanctioning of Israel to isolate it internationally, target artists with an interest in human rights. This is an aim for [...]

How enduringly strange that Misunderstanding of the Religion of Peace™ is so widespread among its most devout adherents. Yet no one ever seems to consider the implications of this for national security issues. “Nigerian sect leader praises al Qaeda, warns US,” from Reuters, July 14 (thanks to Twostellas): LAGOS (Reuters)…

Earlier this week, a group called Queers Against Israeli Apartheid boasted that the Pride Toronto organizers had voted to reverse a decision which would now let them march in the Gay Pride parade. They proudly touted it as a blow against censorship and then issued this statement:
“This is a victory for the Palestine solidarity movement, [...]